Friday, November 23, 2012

To solve the well-known problem in Mac OS X (Lion) related to a Cisco VPN, you can follow these steps.

The problem is: using the built in VPN client to connect to a Cisco ASA, there is a problem related to DNS.
There is no way, using the GUI, to solve the issue. You can set network interface order, but your corporate network DNS will never be involved. So you can ping a connect to your private network using IP addresses, but not domain names (if they are not on a public internet accessible DNS).

With an administrative account, from terminal, create a directory called resolver under /etc